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[09 Oct 2006|10:43pm] |
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I am not the person I was when I began this journal. I see the world in a completely different light and appreciate it so much more. I was miserable in high school, and now I feel like I have freed myself from self inflicted shackles...
Silly as it may seem, I will not delete this long distant reminder of my later teenage years. I may someday want to look through it again and remember the intense and often painful many firsts of yet another bewildered adolscent in this unstable and fast moving world.
So yes, it's come to that time! So long, livejournal!
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[01 Jul 2006|08:24am] |
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I saw Radiohead yesterday at the Greek in LA. My life is now complete.
Not really, but the bug has bitten me badly and now I can't stop listening to them (again).
I now love the song "There, There" more than ever before, along with "Climbing Up the Walls". They were both amazing live. They didn't play "How to Disappear Completely", however. I was very sad. "Paranoid Android" was also really good live...Oh and "Pyramid Song" was lovely but I wouldn't have minded hearing "Packt Like Sardines In a Crushed Tin Box" ..
One of the things I love most about Radiohead is the puzzling and mysterious lyrics..sometimes they mean completely opposite of what I expected, but there's always something interesting to them and I love that people take such different meanings from them. At the moment I'm most curious about what "How to Disappear Completely" was supposed to mean. My guess: It seems like it's saying that life is short and fleeting and somewhat transient, and that there are all these events happening and chaos and the epitome of what LIFE feels like to a young person "Strobe lights and blown speakers", which makes me think immediately of the scene at a rave which interestingly enough is where I feel the most alive what with all the dancing...but it has a sad quality to it (of course), by saying "In a little while I'll be gone The moment's already passed Yeah it's gone" That's where I see the fleeting quality of life, how in a moment you're right in it, you're surrounded by it, you're suffocated in it, and then *poof* it's over before you know whatever happened. That's how I feel about events I look forward to such as going to this concert. Also, this song gave me this feeling that it could be about not fitting into the world's perfect little cookie cut out mold, about being somewhat detached from regular life, and possibly being alive in a different way that can't be understood by the general public. It was the "I'm not here" lines being repeated that made me think that. The title itself "How to Disappear Completely" immediately makes me think about people who want to make their mark on the world so that a little piece of them is always around after they're gone, and how people are always desperate to stand out and not just be easily forgotten, but the lyrics almost sound like they scorn that idea or at the very least mock it a little bit.
That's my stab at it!
The boy I went with managed to guess pretty much every single song they were going to play in the right order. It was impressive.
Oh man and I wish I had been stoned for the concert. Oh well.
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[31 May 2006|12:00pm] |
"Tea [marijuana] heads are not like junkies. A junky hands you the money, takes his junk and cuts. But tea heads don't do things that way. They expect the peddler to light them up and sit around talking for half an hour to sell two dollars' worth of weed... Tea heads are gregarious, they are sensitive, and they are paranoiac. If you get to be known as a "drag" or a "bring down," you can't do business with them. I soon found out I couldn't get along with theses characters and I was glad to find someone to take the tea off my hands at cost. I decided right then I would never push any more tea...
Weed does not inspire anyone to commit crimes. I have never seen anyone get nasty under the influence of weed. Tea heads are a sociable lot. Too sociable for my liking. I cannot understand why the people who claim weed causes crimes do not follow through and demand the outlawing of alcohol. Every day, crimes are committed by drunks who would not have committed the crime sober."
-William Burroughs
Haha that's really funny to me because I live around tons of stoners and sometimes I'm just feeling downright anti-social, but ya can't escape 'em...haha.
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[27 May 2006|09:16pm] |
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Massive Attack - "Man Next Door" makes me want to dance all sexy like. ;)
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[19 May 2006|05:13pm] |
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So why is it that some people call Jean-Paul Sartre the father of existentialism, and others say his book "Nausea" is a bunch of existentialist crap? Why is that concept so scoffed, exactly? 'Cause the more I've looked into it (so far), the more intrigued (and horrified) I'm becoming. Is existentialism just some fad that's drifted out of style, or something more? Anybody have any thoughts on the matter?
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[23 Apr 2006|10:13pm] |
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i'm going out sleepwalking
where mute memories start talking
the boss that couldn't help but hurt you
and the pretty thing he made desert you
i'm going out now like a baby
a NAIVE unsatisfiable baby
grabbing onto whatever's around
for the soaring high or the crushing down
with hidden cracks that don't show
but that constantly just grow
i'm looking for the man that attacked me
while everybody was laughing at me
you beat it in me that part of you
but i'm gonna split us back in two
tired of living in a cloud
if you're gonna say shit now you'll do it out loud
it's 2:45 in the morning
and i'm putting myself on warning
for waking up in an unknown place
with a recollection you've half erased
looking for somebody's arms to
wave away past harms
i'm walking out on center circle
the both of you can just fade to black
i'm walking out on center circle
been pushed away and i'll never go back
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[03 Apr 2006|11:55pm] |
Never, ever fly Aero California. Not if your entire life depends on it.
You might end up in a situation like this:
We arrive at the airport at around 10 in Mazatlan, Mexico, our flight is scheduled to leave at 11:30. We get there and notice that all the flights from and to aero california have been cancelled. Confused and surprised, we inquire further. Turns out that they were cancelled for security reasons aka they didnt pass inspection by the government. To our complete astonishment, they did not inform us even though the flight had been cancelled for a few days. Though we had called repeatedly beforehand to check on the flight, no one answered and there was no recording informing the poor passengers that they were about to get fucked over. So we say to these idiots who don't know how to run a business...whats the plan? whats the alternative? whats the reimbursement? what flight are you putting us on? And we basically get the equivalent of a dueorererioeuwrerwe'refuckingidiotsanddontknowshiteriweuoiweyht....add in a bit of drooling to reassure us that they were in fact dropped on their heads a number of times as babies.Incredulous though we are, we start running around frantically trying to find a flight: cause class starts tomorrow and we have to be there. So the only thing we end up finding is a first class flight to Phoenix, and from Phoenix to LAX...for $700. Apiece. And that's fine and lovely, but Aero California did not promise to reimurburse us, so it's a little bit nervewracking. So then when things couldn't get any better, we ((fast forwarding)) arrive to San Jose around 8 PM after 10 hours of traveling and switching flights, and of course our luggage doesn't arrive. By this point we're delerious and the whole thing is merely a laughing matter...we then find out that because we checked in "so late", our bags were put on the next flight which doesn't arrive until 10. To put the sprinkles on the icing on the shitcake that is our day, while we're clamoring about looking for our lost luggage, some random guy overhears and says "Wait you were on the flight from LAX too? But I was the last person to check my bag in...and it's right there." We're completely gape mouthed, of course. But that's okay, we're troopers. We stick it out and get our bags two hours later, and finally at 11 PM arrive in lovely Santa Cruz, thirteen hours after our journey has begun, where I am now writing this story while in a half daze. I won't write it later so I must do it now. Mostly to save anybody who ever considered using Aero California if they duct tape their faulty planes and go back into business. Don't do it. That's my word of advice.
Other than that, Mexico was fabulous.
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| Stem Cell Research about the moral considerations of an embryo |
[20 Mar 2006|11:46am] |
"I do not accept the argument that embryos have any moral status, much less the full and equal rights of persons, simply because they are human. I do not see how this claim is rationally defensible. If it were true, then a petri dish teeming with living human cells cultured from someone's cancerous tumor would be full of persons because these cells are human, and this is absurd. Of course, the response to this objection is that an embryo is different from the cancer cell because it has the potential to develop into a person. However, I have already argued the embryos outside a woman's body have no potential in the true meaning of the word, just like a seed in the packet from the store does not have the same potential as the seed in fertile, tended ground.
Furthermore, the claim that a living entity which happens to be human has special moral significance runs into another difficulty. If such a creature as Speilberg's ET of movie fame existed (and I do not see why the existence of nonhuman intelligent life is inconceivable), then he would have full and equal moral status just like any other paradigmatic person because he was sentient, rational, could communicate, had emotions, possessed a future valued by him, and he was involved in relationships—after all, he just wanted to go home. ET would not be of lesser moral status than one of us simply because we were human and he was not, nor would he be of greater moral status because he could fly or restore withered plants to life. Also, think of the more powerful and intelligent aliens who might come to earth someday and believe they are morally justified in destroying us because we are not of their species. Of course, a theological case may be made for the specialness of being human (i.e., the Bible says God made humans morally special or the incarnation of Jesus makes humans morally special), but the philosophical case must fail."
Full article can be found here:
http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/ethicalperspectives/stem-cell-research.html
I'm so sick of my Christian step family's stupid ignorant claims with absolutely no evidence. I usually shy away from more "liberal" sides, but more and more, when it comes to moral cases, I'm disgusted by the conservative side..is college liberalizing me?! Lollllzzzzz.
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[14 Feb 2006|12:56pm] |
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HAPPY HALLMARK CORPORATION'S EJACULATION DAY!
No, but in all seriousness, Happy Valentine's Day.
The Lovers 1928
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[08 Nov 2005|05:16pm] |
Fuckin a, my Citizenship and Action class is hard! I have a midterm essay due Thursday at 10 AM and the prompt I chose reads:
Imagine Hannah Arendt in a discussion with Michael Warner about gay marriage. Based on what she writes in The Human Condition, on what theoretical basis (i.e. in terms of "the public" and/or as action) might Arendt defend gay and lesbian marriage? Would Warner be satisfied with her defense? How/why not?
Michael Warner is easy enough to read...but Arendt...damn, I spend so long on a single page re-re-re-re-reading what she has to say. And the connection...I haven't even made it yet!!!! GAH! Anyone..know anything, gimme a heads up. :) Otherwise, proceed with your day, hopefully it's better than mine.
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[29 Aug 2005|12:46pm] |
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So like...I know I'm pretty late for a Harry Potter fan, but anybody read the latest one? Amazing, to say the least, ey? I have to admit...I cried. I really did. AND I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE LAST ONE COMES OUT TO COMPLETE THE SERIES! Die, Voldemort, die!!!
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[27 Aug 2005|08:31pm] |
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Post your absolute favorite lyrics. If you can't decide...post multiple! They can be ones that charge you with a particular emotion or remind you of an experience...anything at all. I've posted way too many. I'll spare you. =D
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